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Rating:  292 reviews
Sales Rank: 226
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.6 x 1.4
MPN: 29230727
Model: 29230727
UPC: 883919135830
EAN: 0883919135830
ASIN: B000UKBIEC
Release Date: October 5, 2007
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| | Make your photos look their best with easy-to-use editing tools | | | Do more with your photos in unique creations for print and web | | | Easily find and view all your photos and video clips | | | Easily perform more advanced retouching and enhancing thanks to easy image-selection tools, amazing compositing capabilities, and more | | | Share your stories in imaginative photo books, scrapbook pages, slide shows, interactive web galleries, and more |
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look their best, share them in imaginative ways, and easily find and view all your photos and video clips. Experiment with easy-to-use compositing tools that let you create perfect group photos, seamless panoramas, and more. Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control. Now when using the Healing Brush, you can preview your changes prior to committing them to get the best results possible. Make image selections in seconds so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo. Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos. Start creating quickly, no experience necessary Express your ideas in customizable layouts Create photo books with greater ease and flexibility Entertain friends with custom slide shows and interactive web galleries Share with family and friends using a variety of fun options Instantly download photos from your camera Categorize photos and video clips with easy-to-use visual tags Group photos into convenient Albums Develop creations more quickly by gathering the photos you need for a specific project in one place View and organize your photos quickly, even when your library grows to include thousands of photos Select and adjust specific areas of a photo more quickly and easily than ever before Easily organize stills and video clips with visual tagging options System requirements - Intel Pentium 4, Pentium M, Intel Centrino 1.3GHz or compatible processor, Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista, 256MB RAM, 1.5GB free space, Color monitor with 16-bit color video card, 1024x768 monitor resolution at 96dpi or less, Microsoft DirectX 9 compatible display driver, CD-ROM drive, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Netscape Navigator 7.0, or Mozilla Firefox 1.
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can easily tell great stories with your photos. Make your photos look their best whatever your level of editing experience--a friendly new design and step-by-step editing assistance help get you started. Easily perform more advanced retouching and enhancing thanks to easy image-selection tools, amazing compositing capabilities, and more. Share your stories in imaginative photo books, scrapbook pages, slide shows, interactive web galleries, and more. And always find and view all your photos and video clips with ease.  Create the perfect group shot
Never let a frown or a closed pair of eyes ruin a group photo again. New photo-blending technology lets you easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of group shots to create a single, perfect composite. |  Select and adjust specific areas of a photo more quickly and easily than ever before. |  Easily organize stills and video clips with visual tagging options. | Bring out the best in your photos
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look their best, share them in imaginative ways, and easily find and view all your photos and video clips. Make your photos look their best
- Experiment with easy-to-use compositing tools that let you create perfect group photos, seamless panoramas, and more.
- Easily brush away wrinkles and unwanted objects using the Spot Healing Brush for instant results and the Healing Brush for finer control. And now when using the Healing Brush, you can preview your changes prior to committing them to get the best results possible.
- Make image selections in seconds so you can easily adjust specific areas of a photo. Simply brush your selection, and then use sliders to make the adjustment blend perfectly with the background.
- Easily adjust skin tones for a more natural look, even in poorly lit photos.
Do more with your photos
- Get step-by-step assistance for making photo creations like scrapbook pages, cards, and CD/ DVD labels. Simply choose the type of creation you'd like to make, and the appropriate tools and instructions appear at your fingertips.
- Find inspiration in professionally designed, color-coordinated layouts that make it easy to make great photo creations in minutes. Or spend a little more time and customize all the elements of your chosen layout.
- Quickly create professional-looking photo books with flexible new options that allow you to view spreads, flip through your book, and rearrange pages--all with fewer clicks than ever before. When your book is finished, just click the Order button to have it professionally printed, hardbound, and delivered to your door.
- Create an eye-catching slide show complete with captions, documentary-style pan and zoom effects, amazing transitions, voice narration, and music. Or take things a step further and share photos in your choice of interactive web galleries.
Easily find and view all your photos and video clips
- With a single click, transfer photos from your memory card to your computer according to your preset preferences, so you can get back to taking photos sooner.
- Easily tag photos with keywords that represent people, places, or events. You can instantly view every photo you've ever taken of your dog, for example, by simply clicking on its tag.
- Place your family, work, or vacation photos into Albums to keep them together for special projects. And see just the photos you want to see with new Smart Albums, which automatically bring together photos based on criteria you choose.
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 Big changes to Photoshop's best product December 4, 2007
Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA)
404 out of 407 found this review helpful
I'm a user of Photoshop Elements all the way back to the first edition. This is, in my opinion, one of the best graphics programs out there--all the power of the great Photoshop full professional program minus the printing CMYK functions you'd need to do professional layouts. So for most users, the great features of Photoshop are there and the price is oh-so-much-more-affordable.
The Version 6 has some significant changes. The interface looks quite different, though I only had some trouble finding my favorite functions. The loading is significantly faster than the previous versions, which was one of my chief annoyances with Photoshop Elements. Version 6.0 loads very quickly, and this is a big improvement.
Changes:
Smart Albums: built-in picture organization. No need to use a separate organizer program.
Darkened Interface: The picture interface (where you load your photos) is darkened to make a better contrast on screen. At first, I did not like this, but it is easier on the eyes so I got used to it and like it now.
Selections: With this new technology, you use a brush to mark out your selection, and then use sliders to make the adjustment blend into the background. Very easy to use. Major change.
Enhanced Clone Tool: Cloning lets you take an inocuous background selection and copy it over an offending area of a picture (mailbox, person, unwanted pole.)
Enhanced Spot Healing Brush: Very easy to use brush to haze out areas, I used to use the smear brush, this is easier and less difficult. The later versions of Elements have a check/cancel button in the corner of your work area, so you can back out of the changes without altering your work.
Enhanced Black and White: Contrast function built in to convert color to pretty decent b&w.
Photo Blending: Much better function to mix photos. Now you can create unrealistic pictures of yourself by putting in your best bits with someone else's better bits, post it on Match.com and disappoint people who meet you in the flesh.
Enhanced Photo Books: available only in North America and Japan. Kind of a way to make your own catalogs.
Enhanced Sharing: Sharing Center burns cds and sends to email as well.
Enhanced Interactive Sharing: Adobe Flash Technology is employed to make animated web galleries. Very cool.
Smart Albums: You can sort by 10 criteria, such as date of shoot, etc, and make an album of only those pictures to work on.
The computers that run Photoshop Elements 6.0? Right now, it's just PC's, and it supports both XP and Vista, though I've heard reports that Vista can be problematical. I do not use Vista, so I can't report on this.
MAC version is due out in early 2008.
For PC's, here's your system requirements:
1.3GHz, or better CPU
256 MB RAM (512 recommended, really)
16-bit Color display with 1024x768 resolution at 96DPI or less.
CD-Rom
1.5 GB hard disk space minimum available
I'd add that a good video card is advisable; if your system is more than 3 years old, it may bog down if you don't have enough video memory on board and I can't speak to what is required, as this is not given as a spec. If you find the processing of pictures slow on your system, adding more video memory may be more useful than more RAM on the main board.
Photoshop Elements Keeps Getting Better! November 5, 2007
J. Swickard (Provo, UT USA)
87 out of 88 found this review helpful
I can't advise on Vista compatibility, since I run XP. Also, it's a personal choice as to whether or not to upgrade from a previous version of Photoshop Elements. With these caveats out of the way, I'll say that Photoshop Elements 6 is the best version of Elements I've used and is a good improvement over Photoshop Elements 5 (which was a marginal improvement over Photoshop Elements 4). Since I teach Photoshop Elements on cruise ships I have to keep up with the latest version, and break it apart as I update and build new lessons. While versions 4 and 5 were great programs, Photoshop Elements 6 is an outstanding program. Just discussing the improvements in the Edit area: (1) Photomerge now has three features that work magnificently. Previously, Photomerge only had a Panorama. Adobe has drastically improved Photomerge Panorama and has added Photomerge Group Shot and Photomerge Faces to the menu. Photomerge Group Shot allows you to move people between photos (someone blinks or is looking the other way when a photo is taken) and works really well. Photomerge Faces lets you move facial features between photos (I'm still in trouble for putting a beard onto a photo of a friend's wife); (2) Quick Selection Tool, that replaced the previous Magic Selection Brush Tool, has become my favorite selection tool. It's fast and accurate, and a lot easier for new users to use than many of the other tools, such as the Magnetic Lasso Tool; (3) Clone Stamp Tool Overlay is a handy new option for use with the Clone Stamp Tool, and Elements has a Refine Edge Option that works well with the Quick Selection Tool, Lasso Tool, and Polygonal Lasso Tool. There are other improvements as well, and Adobe has retained the other useful features that worked well in Elements 4 & 5 (Straighten Tool and Magic Extractor to name just two). The one update in Elements 6 that I don't like is they removed the zoom in and out when scrolling the mouse wheel. My other critcism goes back to Elements 5 and is that to build and print a calender you have to send it off and pay for it. The one great feature in Elements 4 was that you could build calendars and print them out yourself (saving $20 per calendar), which is the one reason I'll also keep Elements 4 on my PC. Photoshop Elements 6 is well worth buying!
Great Program for the Future October 7, 2007
W. Feldman (Mill Valley Ca USA)
49 out of 50 found this review helpful
I initially gave this program 1 star, because I could not get it to work on a Vista upgraded machine, nor on a different machine with a fresh install of Vista. Graphic Editing is extremely important to me, so I took the plunge and bought an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB of RAM and 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 fast fresh Vista Machine and now it works great. The work flow between Quick Fix and Full Edit is smooth, and saves quite a bit of time. Integration with the Organizer is quick and usefull. I wish the Organizer had an explorer type of interface, but I am getting used to it. My old photoshop plugins work with the program, but some of the layer filtering features of the super Photoshop CS3 are missing, oh well.
Recently the program stopped working properly, so I did a clone of the computer to an earlier time when it worked, and now it works again. It is so important to me that this program works; I make a copy (clone) using Acronis 10 once or twice a day, in case PSE6 becomes unstable again.
I had asked Adobe about the program not running and they were confused and not helpful, asking lots of easy questions to me that were meaningless. I don't think they recognize the stability problems of the program working on slightly older upgraded Vista machines. But when it is working it is superb, so I have to give it 5 stars, it saves so much time. I have used it for hundreds of photos already, and the work flow is far superior to my previous methods, some which used Ulead products which now don't work on Vista. For 99% of my needs PSE6 is much faster than PE CS3, so I only use PE CS3 for more technical work. There are dozens of user friendly features that make editing a more natural and enjoyable experience.
The slate interface takes some getting used to after decades on white versions of photoshop, but now I prefer it, less tiring on the eyes. The handy sliders on Quik Edit are fabulous. The graphics are clearer and more vibrant than any earlier program provided. This is a program of the Future, and not the past. Don't try to use it on older machines. It can give you a reason to get that new Duo or Quad processor machine where installation is a breeze and it works almost all of the time.
Another great product from Adobe. October 19, 2007
Sir Twilight King (London, UK)
24 out of 25 found this review helpful
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 is a great photo editing product and a good upgrade from Photoshop Elements 5. I have Windows Vista and have not had any problems with this program and Vista compatibility nor have I had any problems with my computer running pictures at full scale either. It runs smooth as silk. Any prior reviews you may have read on here are strictly based on an older computer and/or insufficient hardware. My computer has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor E6320, 2 GB of RAM and 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS graphics card. In addition I have a 30" monitor which as you may or may not know puts extra strain on the computer and I still have no problem editing multiple pictures . Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 is a great buy for the price and I recommend it for anyone from professional photographers to basic users.
Finally, a user-friendly version of PS Elements June 1, 2008
pm444 (Okemos, MI USA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I had tried previous versions of Photoshop Elements as free trial downloads from Adobe and while they had some great features, I didn't like the interface. I especially disliked switching from browsing to editing, which I found to be clunky and cumbersome, and ended up using ACDSee for image organization and minor editing.
When I started reading positive reviews about PSE6, I decided to download the trial version and give it a shot. After using the trial version for about a week, I was so impressed with the changes and improved ease of use that I purchased the software. For the money, I don't think you can do any better.
At first, I was a bit put off by the organizer, which, while a huge improvement over previous versions of PSE that I'd tried, was still not as intuitive as ACDSee or even the basic photo gallery in Vista. But after using it for a few days, I became more comfortable with it. It includes several quick fix editing options, as well as the option to view complete metadata for your photos. Importing photos into the organizer is relatively easy (very easy when you insert your camera's memory card, might take a little work importing from files and folders already on your PC). It will even do an auto red-eye correction as it imports your photos, which is a handy feature.
As for the image editor, I was very impressed by how easy it was to use. By offering three edit modes, Adobe gives users a choice. Full mode is exactly what it says. Your image appears in a window with the complete tool palette and you choose what you want to do. This would be great for users who know what they want to do, and how to do it. Quick mode offers a smaller tool palette, and a task bar that includes the most common editing fixes (lighting, color, etc.) as well as various automatic fixes. Guided mode offers a series of questions that you work through, asking you what you want to do, and then guiding you through the process. For me, this was the easiest way to get started. You always have the option of undoing your edits, or resetting the image.
Once you're done editing an image in the editor, you must close it or when you return to the organizer, there will be a red bar through the middle of the image that says "edit in progress". It's not enough to save the edited image in the editor, you have to close it. I don't particularly mind this, but I'm not sure why it's necessary.
There is a fairly extensive set of user preferences and they're reasonably easy to navigate and control, though there is no option to change the program's dark gray color scheme (see below).
The printed manual that accompanies the software is very basic, and Adobe directs the user to its online help files. I did not find the online help to be especially helpful, so I bought a couple of books (one by Scott Kelby, one by Philip Andrews). These include much more detailed and thorough guidance and they are excellent resources. Kelby's book includes detailed, step-by-step instructions for various editing tasks, while Andrews is more of a quick reference. Between the two of them, I have found more than enough guidance for the tasks I've attempted so far.
Some reviewers have complained about the dark gray color scheme, especially since you cannot change the color. I don't mind the dark gray, but I don't know why Adobe didn't offer several other color schemes to allow users to choose what they liked. Others have said that the program is slow and crashes frequently. I'm using a laptop that's about a year and a half old, with 2GB RAM, and without a separate graphics card, and I haven't had any problems with crashes or slowness. I usually don't have any other programs open when I'm editing photos, but when I do, PSE6 doesn't seem to mind.
I'm very pleased with this version of PSE and it is by far the best image editing software I have used. (Note: several reviewers who have used PSE5 say that version 6 is not a major upgrade, and this may be true. The most recent version of PSE that I had used prior to 6 was version 3). PSE6 is so user-friendly and contains so many features that it has encouraged me to try more advanced tasks that I would never have tried before. It also offers the auto fix options in the organizer and the quick mode in the editor, for newer users or for when you're in a hurry. I think Adobe has done an excellent job of combining a rich feature set with a user-friendly interface.
A note about the current rebate offer: contrary to what one reviewer wrote here, the 6 week time limit refers to the amount of time you have to submit your rebate, and does not mean that you can only get the rebate if you've purchased other software 6 weeks prior to purchasing PSE6. Read the rebate coupon, it's very clear. Furthermore, the upgrade rebate is offered for a variety of non-Adobe products as well as previous versions of PSE6, and the proof required. In my case, I was able to submit a photocopy of the CD for an old version of Paint Shop Pro. The other rebate requirements are easy to assemble: a small tab from the box, your purchase receipt, and the ocmpleted coupon along with proof of ownership of the product you're upgrading.
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